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Tuesday, 5 April 2016

The best eTwinning project in English 2016

Today I would like to write
about an eTwinning project that has been awarded a "special category
prize": the best project in the area of teaching a curriculum subject through the medium of
English. This prize has been awarded to the project entitled " AIMS Alternatives for Innovative Math Study"

I have chosen to write about
this project because those of you who attend my CLIL seminar know I am a firm
believer in the theory of Multiple Intelligences and the participant
teachers in this project use the MI theory to discover and develop each student's
particular skills, needs and interests, differentiate and adapt the teaching
methods to them.

Besides, AIMS uses
cooperative learning methods, which is not so common in Maths classes,
fosters autonomous learning and promotes mutual respect, tolerance and
understanding for students with different abilities.

Last but not least,
students who have taken part in this project create their own
learning materials for each type of MI by using motivating ICT
tools or modelling real-life situations so that mathematical contents
become relevant for them.

Below you can find an example of the use of mind
maps, developed by the Greek team:

It is, indeed, an ideal project for our CLIL classes. It focuses on Maths
and it aims mainly at making 11-16-year-old students see the connection between Maths
and real life but it covers many other subjects: Design and
Technology, European Studies, Foreign Languages, History, / ICT, Mathematics /
Geometry, Natural Sciences, Physics.